Whatnot
Software Engineer, Design Systems
$207K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building user-facing products.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Build and evolve Whatnot’s cross-platform design system, including components, design tokens, and tooling that connects Figma to production code.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain design system components for iOS, Android, and web, with attention to accessibility and consistent UI.
- Own design-token architecture and automated workflows that sync tokens from Figma into platform codebases.
- Collaborate with designers and build supporting tools, testing, and AI-assisted workflows for design-to-code implementation.
What they ask for
- Production UI experience on at least two of iOS, Android, and web; enthusiasm for working across all three.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system, including component libraries, tokens, versioning, migrations, and API design.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with designers and working familiarity with Figma.
- Experience addressing accessibility, theming and dark mode, internationalization/RTL, testing, and documentation.
Nice to have
- Experience building Figma plugins or design-to-code tooling, or using documentation platforms such as Supernova or Storybook.
- Experience using AI agents to accelerate component and token migrations.
Pay
$207K - $230K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, React, TypeScript, Figma, Storybook
AI focus
Build AI-assisted workflows that turn Figma components into first-draft implementations; AI agents may also accelerate component and token migrations.
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